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Wade mentioned a book by the same author which had appeared more than a year ago. "Yes, I read that when it came out," said Lilian, and began to talk of it. Mrs. Wade kept silence, then remarked carelessly: "You had them in the Tauchnitz series, I suppose?" Had her eyes been turned that way, she must have observed the strange look which flashed across her companion's countenance.
He read slowly from the paper, "Pollock, Erckmann, Tauchnitz, Henniker"-four names familiar to me. "Can you tell me what the corruption is supposed to mean the gist of the thing?" I asked. "I have been many times overcome with weariness in this particular employment. That is the meaning." He returned me the paper, and I fled without a word of thanks, explanation, or apology.
In an hour we were in rooms at the Kron Prince. We sent a note to the professor; the waiter returned, saying that Dr. Tholuck was at Kissengen. Our theological Mont Blanc was hid in mist. Blank enough looked we! "H., is there no other professor we want to see?" "I believe not." Pensively she read one of the Tauchnitz Library. Plaintively my Amati sighed condolence.
Here is "Marmorne" as an example, published in America, in England, in France, both in Hachette's "Bibliotheque des meilleurs Romans Etrangers," and as a feuilleton in the "Temps," also in the Tauchnitz collection, unanimously well received by the press; said to be "le roman de l'annee" by the "Revue des Deux Mondes," and still bringing considerably less than L200 to the author's purse.
If I sell a man a book by Stevenson or Conrad, a book that delights or terrifies him, that man and that book become my living advertisements." "But that word-of-mouth advertising is exploded," said Gilbert. "You can't get Distribution that way. You've got to keep your trademark before the public." "By the bones of Tauchnitz!" cried Mifflin.
The people below trailed shadows like running ink. The light was ultra-tropical. One looked for drill suits and pith headgear, and was amazed to find pajamas insufficient at the open window. Upon the terrace on the other side, when I eventually came down, there were cane chairs and Tauchnitz novels under the umbrella tents, and the telescope out and trained upon a party on the Matterhorn.
In like manner our hyphenated nationalities have the Piazza di Spagna for their own. There are the two English book-stores and the circulating libraries, in each of which the books are so torn and dirty that you think they cannot be quite so bad in the other till you try it; there seems nothing for it, then, but to wash and iron the different Tauchnitz authors, and afterward darn and mend them.
It wouldn't have been politic to disclose it to Molly. The second errand took time and deliberation. He studied the long shelves of Tauchnitz. Having red corpuscles in superabundance, he naturally preferred them in his literature, in the same quantity. "Ever read this?" asked a pleasant voice from behind, indicating Rodney Stone with the ferrule of a cane. Harrigan looked up. "No.
As for a Scotch accent, I've bought Burns, and a Crockett in Tauchnitz, and by to-morrow I'll engage that no one unless a Scotsman would know me from a Scotswoman. Hoot, awa', mon. Come ben." "But er my aunt's rather by way of being a swell. She wouldn't be found dead saying 'hoot, awa', 'or 'come ben. There's just a little indescribable burr-r "
There's lots of red tape about such things, and the motor might have to wait days on end here at Marvels, before getting off, to say nothing of how long she might be on the way. Our train doesn't leave for more than an hour, and it's a very slow one. Still, it will be warm, and we have cards and Tauchnitz novels. What do you think of the plan?"
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